Improvement in fliers for spinning machinery



UNiTnn STATES PATENT 0rricn- CHARLES HYDE, OF NORTH CHELMSFORD,MASSACHUSETTS.

Speciiication forming part Letters Patent No. 53,44%?, dated March 27,1866.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, CHARLES VHYDE, ot' North Chelmsford, in the countyof Middlesex and State of lflassachusetts, have invented a. new anduseful Improvement in Fliers for Machinery for Spinning orTwistingFibrous Materials; and l do hereby declare the saule to be fullydescribed in the following specification. and represented in theaccompanying drawings, of which- Y Figure 1 is a front view, and Fig. 2an edge view, of ailier as provided with my invention, which consists inthecoinbination ot'a projection socketed at its ends with the tiier, and

with a wire made to extend either above or below, or both above andbelow, the said vprojection; and my invention further consists in theconstruction of the soeketed projection with a groove going eitherwholly or partially around it, the purpose ot' such groove being toprevent the illier-ar1n from being worn by the yarn at the junction ot'the projection with such arm. The object of the socketed projection isnot only to save the necessity of weakening the flier-arm by boring ahole into it for the support of the guide, butit is to at't'ord a bettersupport for the guide-wire than the latter has when inserted in thenier-arm in the ordinary manner. Fig. 3 is a top View of the socketedprojection as separate from the tlier and guide.

In the said drawings, A denotes a 'llier, of which a a are the arms; b,the neck, and c the -base. The projection B is formed with two sockets,d e, one being to receive and embrace the flier-arm, and the other beingto receive the guide wire C. The projection is to be groovedtransversely, as shown at f, .such groove being carried either wholly orpartially around the projection. This groove'reeeives the yarn in itspassage to the bobbin of the hier and prevents such yarn from cuttinginto and wearing the solder by which the projection B is to be afiixedto the Hier-arm a.

The groove c, after the guide G (which is a straight piece of wire) islaid within it, is to have solder run into it, so as to confine theguide in place or to the projection. Extending the guide above theprojection is advantageous in sonne kinds ot' spinning, especially whenthe yarn is Wound one or more times about the projection; and it isstill lnore advantageous to have the guide extended both above and belowthe projection in manner as represented in the drawings, for in this wayit may be nia-de to serve to belay the yarn to the iiier in ease thesaine may at any time be desirable. By extending it below the projection the guide answers the purpose otl the ordinary hook or guide asgenerally applied to the dier-arm.

By having thc guard laid in and soldered to the projection it becomes aneasy matter to y detach the guard therefrom whenever it may be too unichworn by the yarn. Thus we can save the projection without the necessityot' detaching it from the Hier-arm whenever a fresh guard may berequired. Were the guard and projection made of one piece of metal theprojection would be useless when the guard should become too much wornfor being used to advantage.

'I do not claim a hook inserted in the flierarin and made in theordinary mannerd I claim as my inventionl. The combination of theprojection B, socketed at its ends, with the flier A and the wire orguard C, applied so as to extend either above or below, or both aboveand below, the projec tion, as specified.

2. The socketed project-ion as made with a groove, f, going eitherwholly or partially around it, substantially as and for the purposehereinbet'ore set forth.

CHARLES HYDE.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, F. P. HALE, Jr.

